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Show MyJ I, ' . 'r' ' M - Y Fnt CUu Job Printiof I Are Yon a Subscriber? If not please remember your subscription will help make this paper strong a thing necessary far an unsurpassed news At living prices. Let us utre your next order for anything you want print ed. Rich County News printing ia synonymous with art and ef&ciency service. BEACHES EVERY NOOK AND CORNER OF RICH COUNTY NUMBER 22. RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1920. YEAR. TWENTY-FOURT- H UTAH BUDGET DEPARTMENT FORWARDS DECORATIONS FOR DISTRIBUTION ON ARMISTICE TOl. DAY. (Number of Troops to Be Organized in Each 8tate Will Bring the Peace The long delay in Washington. swarding 'medals for distinguished war-tim-e service in the navy and marine corps is about to be ended, it was learned Monday at the navy department .The decorations, which were held up while a naval board reconsidered the awards after a controversy among naval officers and a sub sequent congressional investigation last winter, have been mailed t5 commanding officers of ships and stations for distribution either on Armistice day, November 11, or Armistice Sun- -' . day, November 14. The medals were forwarded in sealed packages, with instructions that they were not to be opened until receipt of, a general release message from the department, and were then to l)e presented with appropriate cere- In line with the policy in organizing the troops of each corps area, the reserve and national, guard officers of the general staff, on duty in the war department, have been ordered to visit each corps area headquarters and there to advise and confer with the corps area commanders and the state authorities with reference to the organization of the national guard divisions allocated to the various corps areas. It has been deemed advisable by the war department to begin the reorganization of the national guard immediately, and a table of tentative allotments has been prepared showing the number of troops to be organized In each state, under section 62 of the national defense act, as amended, which requires a proportion of 200 men for each senator and representative in congress, and a number to be determined by the president for each territory and the District of Columbia; with a proportionate annual increase until 800 men per senator and representative ha J been reached, which minimum is required under the statute by June SO, 1924. If the provisions of this law are fulfilled, a total enlisted strength of approximately 427,000 men will be provided as the peace organization of the national guard component of the army. i . OF GENERAL 8TAFF VISIT CORP8 AREA TO AID IN WORK. .' Revised List Includes More Than 400 Officers and Men Who Will Receive the Distinguished Service Medal, 1500 Navy Cross. monies. The original -- FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD PORTS PUBLIC SHOWING BUYING CAUTION. JMEMBER8 . list Included thirtced Describes Economic and Business Sit uation as a Whole as One Showing Much Inherent Strength Through Strength of Guard to Total of 427,000 in Nation. Orderly Transition. Washington. Recovery from war and postwar conditions is proceeding apace in the United States and the natural forces In evidence which make for stabilization carry assurance for the future, the federal reserve board declared on October 31, in its monthly review of business con- Washington. of the war department persons to receive the Medal of Honor, while the revised list, it was said, provides for nineteen. The revised list as finally approved, includes the names f more than 400 officers and men who will receive the distinguished ser-- ' vice medal and about 1500 to receive the navy cross, , The controversy over naval decorations was precipitated last winter by the publication of a letter from Rear Admiral William S. Sims to Secretary Daniels, declining to accept the distinguished service medal for which he Rad been recommended' because of al-- . WILL BUILD NO MORE AIRPLANE8 leged injustices in the manner of awarding the honors. After the sen- Germany Soon to Be Completely Disate investigation Mr. Daniels sent the armed When Factories Are Razed. list back to the Knight board for Berlin. Thirty-si- x years ; of aerial ; .. and develop- . ? jsavieation experiments r ditions. Although the readjustment process has been marked by uncertainty and some suspension of activity, the board described the economic and business situation as a whole as one showing much inherent strength and an ability EXPECT TO SOLVE to attain a position of relative stability It through an orderly transition. argued that the necessary changes in the direction of normal conditions would be accomplished without great SECRETARY COLBY HINTS AT disturbancec unless unforseen factors EARLY RECOGNITION OF entered into the process. NEW GOVERNMENT. Price revisions in textile lines and in other branches of wearing apparel, as vwell as in numerous staple commoSays Mexican Question Will Soon dities, said the board, have been the Cease to be Question at All, outstanding elements in the situation, Inasmuch as it is About to be as during the preceding month. just Answered Satisfactorily. Caution in buying, due to a belief that price readjustment is not yet over, has been a noteworthy factor, and in some quarters has tended to slow down the activity of retail trade,, although more apparent in the wholesale trade. Crop yields have, on the whole, justified the expectation expressed at the opening of the month. Banking' reserves have held their own during the month and there has been a steady Improvement in the liquidity of paper. Labor is less fully employed. Not-- . withstanding some sporadic cuts In Wages here and there, the general posi- - MEXICAN PROBLi - " - MRS. PEETE BLAMED FOR DEATH OF WEALTHY CALIFORNIA i MINING PROMOTER. I Evidence 8aid to Have Been Obtained That Accused Woman Disposed pi Diamonds and Automobile Bt $ longing to Murdered Man' Los Angeles. Mrs. Louise L. Pete of Denver, charged with the murder of Jacob, Charles Denton, wealthy mining promoter, in an Indictment returned Wednesday by the Los Angeles county grand jury, is in the county jail awaiting trial in the superior court,. se for November 29. Proceedings against the forme occupant of the Denton residence, JjVthe cellar of which the mining man body was found buried September 23,iote Wednesday . . J m. lifi "teadmilitarihr androamercially tyi air- the j euia(6(j jB jjew ork' that- - the recog-an- d grand jurys room at 11 i20 a. : .phleagofctfut Hamsun. V-- tonnef ship construction, has come to a sudstill calm when she emerged twq njtjon wag- jamlneilt, met with em- atreet car. conductor In Chicago, has den end with the dissolution of all mllt-- i minutes later. . She had used those , denial at the state department.' just been dwarded the Nobel literature tary airship organizations as contained two minutes. It was stated, to tell the phatic A few hours, later, however. Secretary and fares 1920. In for sad the of General Gathering prize goodbye;decree grand jurors she would not testify. Colby made public a letter from Mr. shoving em up on a swaying Hal- - Yon Seeckt, head of the present minia- Five minutes later It was reported the Pesquelra as the basis for his anHamstead street horse car was not to ture Germany army, to the air detachindict' her. to had voted jury nouncement; saying it afforded a founsuns Jiking and he was not a glitter-- , ments of the old army. The evidence upon which the indict- dation upon ' which the preliminaries is he success role. in that With the exception of one or two, ment was Today Ing based was said to include to recognition can confidently prothe greatest living fiction writer of too small to be of any practical use, these alleged facts:, ceed. Scandinavia. To date his works havq all the sheds and harbors f - L -- - : - ' ' big Zeppelin Mrs. Peete caused to be hauled into into twenty-thre- e 1 been translated Germany will then be completely the Denton cellar the earth under ' languages. His published volumes "disarmed. which the bddy was burled. cover 65,000,000 pages. She caused the pawning of a diaWave of Crime in Chicago. mond ring which had belonged to DenIrish Prisoner Pays Penalty. Seventeen persons are ton. Chicago. Dublin. Keven Barry,-- ' a medical dead and many' others injured as a She disposed of his automobile. student, was executed at Mount joy result of the Saturday night and eary She gave away part of his clothing. for taking Sunday morning outbursts of crime, prison Monday morning She cashed checks bearing the sigpart in an attack on a military escort by drunken brawlers, train nature of J. C. Denton, after, it is behere during the past summer.,' Barry and street car accidents, quarrels, roblieved he had been murdered. was charged With murder, as fw beries and other elements that tend Mrs. Peetes lawyer said the SpanBritish soldiers were killed during the to make human life one of the poorish woman named by Mrs. Peete in 1000 persons prayed est risks in Chicago. fighting. Nearly statements she is said to have made outside the prison during the executo the district attorney's deputies as tion. . 8tock Raiser Tells Lurid Story. with Denton over his St. Louis. A man who says he is having quarreled to refusal marry her, as havalleged Claim. Mexico to Pay British Joseph Alexander, a stock raiser of ing been shot in' the shoulder by him, Great Britain has Fort Smith, Ark., reported to officials Washington. summoned to her aid and as agreed to a settlement of the claim of St. Louis county that he had escap- a man havingvho friend, helped her kill Denkillout of the against Mexico growing ed early Saturday from a farmhouse would ton, figure in Mrs. Peetes deing of William S. Benton, a British In the county where he had been held fense.' 17, on near February Juarez, subject, a prisoner since Monday. His captors, Mexico is to pay, $10,000 cash he 1914. asserted, tortured and compelled LORD MAYOR LAID AT REST. to Mrs. Benton and a pension of $2.50 him to sign a check for $25,000 on a Mrs. remains Benton as as a day long bank at Fort Smith. Solemn Services for MacSwiney Held unmarried. at Cork. SIR JOHN ANDERSON jCork, Ireland. In the presence of Millionaire Smuggler Fined. New York. Charged with smuggling surpliced church dignitaries, scores of his former comrade volunteers and necklace a and diamond a pearl ring thousands of his countrymen, the body valued at $10,500 into the United of Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of States, Victor Vivaudou, . millionaire Cork, was lowered to its resting place perfume manufacturer, pleaded guilty in the Republican plot in St. in the federal district .court and was cemetery, just outside Cork, fined $5000. The" gems were confiscated by the government. Sunday afternoon.-Despitthe splendor lent by the attendance of the high churchmen, there Boston Wants Recount was a simplicity marking the cereBoston. A population of 801,679 for Outside monies that was Impressive. is city, instead of 747,923, as of crowd the hidden was by the federal "census cemetery, takers, by limed by Mayor Peters on Monday, townspeople, two armored cars, man chine guns ready, and a a letter to Samuel L. Rogers, lorries filled with fully equipped solof the census, requesting that new federal census be ordered here. diers, were drawn up, imparting a sin ister air to the otherwise solemn proof ceedings. But cfuring the transfer Army Recruits Increasing. Recruits for the reguthe body from the city hall through Washington. g streets lined with crowds to St. Marys lar army continue to flock in at cathedral and during the procession to rates, Adjutant General Harthe cemetery there was ny disturbris offices announced Monday, and ance. enlistments accepted during Octorecords for thq. ber broke all peace-tim- e Scottish Radicals Arrested. month. surGlasgow, Scotland. The police miliBolshevists in Crimean Peninsula. prised a body of civilians doing at 2 London. Several important towns tary duty during a dense fog Both-weljd&nxo l, Crinear of the northwest and northeast oclock Thursday morning Glasmean peninsula have been occupied by eight miles southeast of one the soviet Russian forces as a result gow. Shots were exchanged and Sir John Anderson, the undersecreof hard fighting along the Black sea wounded seriously. was who been has for policeman aiding Ireland, tary front. It is announced. Several of the civilians were arrested, in'trying to solve the Irish question. ! . ' , g . I think I am warranted in saying, Mr. Colbys formal announcement said, that the Mexican, question will soon cease to be a question at all, inasmuch as it is about to be answered, not only as it concerns the United States, but, indeed, the' whole world as well. Mr. Pesqueiras letter told of his earlier informal negotiation with Davis at the state department, and said it was a new Mexico, which submittnig herself to the recognized principles of international law, now sought recognition by the United States. Mr. Colby described the latter as a very significant and a very gratifying and reassuring statement of the attitude and purposes of the new government of .Mexico. President Mails His Ballot. Washington. President and Mr. Wilson voted on Saturday in the pres, idential election. They marked their ballots at the White House and mailed them to Princeton, N. J., where the president heretofore lias gone each . election day to vote. GENERAL ROZVADOWSKI far as actual- - payments 't weather. Reports from almost all sections indicated that the retailer had determined to await further developments before renewing his stocks heavily. The outstanding grders were reported to be small and the general purchasing activity of the retail merchant was described as very conservative. The manufacturer has felt the withholding of orders by the retailers, and, according to reports, has not been able to operate on full time in many lines of trade decause of a lack of orders. Cotton mills were mentioned specifically as having been hard hit by the slackening of retail orders, while new business in the iron and steel industry . has actually decreased. In the shoe and leather industry the board found conditions similar to those in the cotton trade and other textiles. The leather interests are facing imminent shutdowns in many places because of the heavy decline in buying, the reports showed. LONG RANGE, GUNS MISSING Engines of Destruction That Shelled Paris Mysteriously Disappear. Berlin. Where are the long range German guns which startled the world one day in 1918 by dropping shells , half-doze- Coal Dealers Are Indicted. Birmingham, Ala. Eleven retail coal dealers and two mine operators were indicted by the federal grand jury here Saturday on charges of violating the Lever act The indictments followed protests from many sections of the state against present prices of coal. record-breakin- 17,-45- Pool, Sellers Are Indicted. Chicago. True bills against three owners of baseball pools were voted Friday by the special grand jury in- General Rozvadowski staff of the Polish army. is chief of -- d. E. A. Bock, former mayor, will be arraigned November 5, at Salt Lake, upon the charges preferred against him as a result of his being $12,000 short in his accounts while city auditor. Thomas Wheeler and son, Walter, brought into Spriugville last week four trophies of the hunt in the form of four brown bears, a large female n weighing 500 pounds, and three half-grow- cubs. ' Mrs. Isabelle Foulger, aged 65, was struck by a street car at Ogden and instantly killed. From the force of the Impact Mrs. Foulger was carried about 50 feet along the street and her head was badly crushed.' The search for Miss Frances Korous, missing Salt Lake nurse, continues. The police cling to the theory that she e. was run down and killed by an and her bodf spirited away by auto-mobil- A bulletin IsAted 'bJ' the acensus buwages are concerned. While the retail trade reported reau, showing farm development fu moderate increase In net sales as the west, finds Utah standing sixth compared with last fall, the usual fall on the list of percentage gain, showactivity and buying was said to be not ing an increase from 21,676 in 1910 in evidence. The board attributed to 25,664 in 1920, a gain of 18.4 per : some of fhis condition to unseasonable cent. into Paris from a distance, of more than 75 miles? The guns and everything connected with them are reported to have disappeared as mysteriously as they appeared. The government says it does not know, and no doubt is telling the truth. The men who had the secrets of the big guns were very few. They did not trust the governments that: ruled in Berlin since the revolution. Fin-bar- di-ct- RE Running directly In front of a street car at Salt Lake, William Gowdy, aged 9, suffered the loss of his left foot. Fire, which occurred at noontime at the Forbes school building at American Fork resulted in $400 damage. Edwin Dallin, famous Utah sculptor, has designed the Mayflower coin, which is being circulated in honor of the landing of the Pilgrim fathers. In order to aid in obtaining funds for the relief of the suffering Jews in Europe the Jewish people of Salt Lake will give a charity fair November 10. Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the Logan iron works, causing a loss estimated at $6000, The building and contents were insured for $3500. Punished at school for missing her lessons, Marie Means, aged 13, of Salt Lake, has disappeared from her search is behome, and a state-wid- e ing made for the child. The first message ever sent from the United States air mail service wireless station at Elko, Nev., was received at the air service radio station at Salt Lake on October 28. Henry Rolfsen, 21 years of age, a Central brakeman on the Utah-Idah- o Electrjc railway, was crushed to death when he was run over by a beet train at Amalga, four miles west of Smith-fiel- vestigating baseball. Owners of the Great Western, Universal and American-National pools are named in the bills. All are Chicago men. To prevent overgrazing, half of tho members of the Vernon Grazing association have agreed to use the northern part and the other half the southern part of the Vernon division of the Wasatch national forest for their stopk next year. A new building for the housing of educational and possibly mines exhibits, the latter in connection with the Utah School of Mines, is one feature of the program for the coming biennium mapped out by the directors of the Utah State Fair association. Harry Mitchell, 35 years of age, known to the police as a bootlegger, gambler and swindler, was fatally shot at Salt Lake, October 28. The officers are searching for Georgio who is said to have been swindled out of $2200 by Mitchell.-Athe monthly session of the board of education of the L. D. S. church, held at Salt Lake last week, the secretary-treasurer of the hoard announced In his annual report that $2,000,000 had been expended on L. D. S. church school buildings and building sites during the past year. The third baby to be left on the doorstep of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Brown of Ogden within a year was found at 8 oclock Sunday morning by Mrs. Brown. The first baby was left at the Brown home in March of this year, and is now a healthy youngster. The second one died. The Brow-nwill adopt the third baby. Suit to collect $23,005.96, alleged to be due for switching service performed between November, 1916, and December 31, 1917, at the Midvale plant of the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining company, was filed against the company in the United States district court at Salt Lake by the Oregon Short Line railroad. " Four committees have been appointed by the Utah State Realty association to handle the various questions of importance to the state in general, and real estatte men in particular, at the next session of the legislature. In deciding the Rushton case, involving many points in the validity of the ptah( workmens compensation act, the supreme court of the state upheld the act in every particular attacked. While playing with matches, the 3year-oldaughter of Ray Chapman, of Salt Lake, set her clothing on fire and was fatally burned. Kot-sifaki- s, -! d |